Excerpt from Bon-Mots Ome writer of the time, with a turn for nick-names, dubbed Samuel Foote the English Aristophanes and every writer echoes the conceit. As an author of satirical farce and broad comedy, as a mim etic actor, and as a ready wit, he stood alone during the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Petted and admired for his fortunes - he ran through three - and for the life and spirit with which he made himself one of the gay world, he was feared, and more or less cordially detested, as a man of ready and un ...
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Excerpt from Bon-Mots Ome writer of the time, with a turn for nick-names, dubbed Samuel Foote the English Aristophanes and every writer echoes the conceit. As an author of satirical farce and broad comedy, as a mim etic actor, and as a ready wit, he stood alone during the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Petted and admired for his fortunes - he ran through three - and for the life and spirit with which he made himself one of the gay world, he was feared, and more or less cordially detested, as a man of ready and un measured wit, and of powers of mimicry which have never been equalled. His qualities as a social wit, as a teller of good stories, an utterer of hon-mots when i' the vein and among congenial company, are borne witness to by many of his friends and acquaintances. Even Doctor Johnson, the Caliban of literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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